And here's our third Megan Fox thread because both are fucking great and this is even more mind-boggling amazing to me:
Much more at the link: https://ew.com/tv/2018/11/27/megan-fox-legends-of-the-lost/
Gah I love this woman.
And by the way, I don't care she isn't English, GIVE ME MEGAN FOX'S TOMB RAIDER, WB.
The first episode of Legends, airing Dec. 4, finds Fox traveling to Scandinavia and England to learn more about emerging theories that there were female warriors who helped the Vikings rise to power, feared from 790 A.D. until the Norman Conquest in 1066. In subsequent episodes, she visits Stonehenge to find out why the monument was built and get the truth about the stones' reported supernatural powers; seeks answers about new finds along the Savannah River in the Southeastern U.S. that some say indicate there was a migration of gigantic prehistoric versions of Homo sapiens more than 13,000 years ago; and tries to determine whether the Trojan War actually happened, using Homer's Iliad as a treasure map, along with high-tech data and discoveries in modern-day Turkey.
Below, Fox tells EW about her burning desire to explore, her personal experience visiting some of these locations, and the skepticism she faced when pitching the show to networks.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Aside from posting some photos on Instagram from when you were filming this series, I think many people will be surprised to learn that all these topics you explore are things you are genuinely interested in. Was that also a surprise to network executives when you started pitching the show? How did they react?
MEGAN FOX: Yeah, I mean, there was a general [laughs] sense of disbelief that this is something I'm genuinely passionate about. And then, depending on which topic and which thing we're discussing, I can be quite knowledgeable on archaeology and antiquities, and I think that was also really surprising for people. And I think it was also something that was maybe a deterrent in pitching the show because everyone has the same question, which is, "Is an audience going to believe that you know all of this stuff?" [Laughs] They needed a formula and a format where it would be easily digestible by an audience member, so the way we ended up doing these four episodes is that I serve more as the avatar for an audience, where I'm asking the same questions someone at home might be asking if they were there, and that seems to work for what it is right now.
This really seems like one of your dream jobs.
Yeah. I've loved these subjects for a really long time, and I've been passionate about it for a long time, and to be able to create and executive-produce the show, which it's my first time doing that as well, to be able to have the experience and traveling the world, but also building the relationships with some of these very important, key people who are involved in this industry that I want to have more to do with, was really exciting for me. In my future, when I look far into the future, this is a world that I want to be a part of, and so to be able to build friendships with these people is very beneficial, and I'm really grateful. I didn't go and get a traditional education in archaeology or paleontology. [Laughs] So to be able to speak to some of these people and learn from them and have a relationship with them was really amazing.
Where did that passion come from? When did it start?
One of the only school subjects I was ever interested in was Greek mythology, and from there… I wasn't a good student. I didn't even really graduate high school; I went to correspondence school and got a degree, but I didn't stay in school. I always had that interest — anything that involved mythology or antiquities or religious mystery, anything like that I was always really drawn to and interested in. And then I started watching this show called Ancient Aliens when I was in my early 20s and… there are so many good questions there that that show actually put forward, regardless of whether you're an ancient alien theorist or not, and that opened my mind just to the point where I was going, "If I'm going to create a project for myself, why don't I create a project in this vein?" Because this is what I love, this is what I'm interested in. So instead of working on producing a movie for me to act in, I'd rather do this.
And then I had a bunch of kids [laughs], and then I woke up one day and I was like — it actually started with a passion for a different sort of quest that we didn't do in these four episodes — but I decided this is something that I needed to do and this is an area of my life that I needed to explore. And I started pitching the show!
Much more at the link: https://ew.com/tv/2018/11/27/megan-fox-legends-of-the-lost/
Gah I love this woman.
And by the way, I don't care she isn't English, GIVE ME MEGAN FOX'S TOMB RAIDER, WB.
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